CarrieW's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms [MSI] DIRCA_CheckFX fails on some PC

  Hi, I built an MSI, using Visual 2005, Framework 2, C#, and a setup project.This MSI install an add-in and a Com server. It works fine on some PC (Xp), but fails on others: the first window contains an error message. The message suggest to restart the installation. Note that I already checked that: * the framwork v2 has been installed * the SYSTEM account has full control over the temp dir and where the .msi file resides, * visual 2005 and the XP machins are English. I have read serveral forums, but the error is no exactly the same: http://www.totalblowhole.com/new-800043-3598.html http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thre ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Three examples I'd like to see from the Avalon ATC team

  I couldn't find a way to contact the Avalon ATC team, so I figured I'd do it here. Here are two samples I'd like them to show: Fixed Percentage Width ListView: We define columns with a percentage width. The columns cannot be resized. Whenever the window is resized, the columns resize based on the percentage of the entire ListView they take up. Variable Width Fixed Total ListView: Columns are defined by normal widths. However, the last column auto sizes to the end of the ListView. Resizing any column bigger resizes the column next to it smaller. Therefore, the total width of all the columns is always the exact amount of space the Lis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Searching a data base in visual basic 2005

  l need to be able to search for a word or part of a word. as well l need help to code a button to add a record to the data base as well one to delete and one to save. Anyone able to help me with this. it would be most helpful. hi, shirvo first of All the vedios shows you how to add , edit, and delete, particulary when he use icons (add-edit-delete folder of channel) follow that part well and you will get it //Ok, well l still cant believe that you need all that code to do a simple thing like delete believe it or not the vedios show the easiest way to do so, eventhough its not easy thing there are lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration page not available

  The link in my Visual Basic 2005 Express to register keeps coming up "page can not be displayed" the link is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=51341&lcid=1033&h=7c7d6ccdd64da0f1&c=&pid=76541-000-0000011-00124&bn=050727.42   and my version is 8.0.50727.42 Any suggestions on how to register it   I want the free goodies... thanks in advance. Teamdad Hi Teamdad, The link works for me. Check your Security settings in Internet Explorer to make sure that you aren't blocking access; if you are using a firewall you might check that as well. Hope this helps, Steve Hoag Visual Basic Ex ...Show All

• SQL Server Snapshot for merge replication error: "Discover dependencies failed"

  I'm converting an existing production replication process to SQL 2005 for testing. My snapshot for a merge replication is failing. Environment: Single XP server, no filters, @schema_option = 0x000000000C034DD1 I have several snapshot jobs in my process, 2 for transactional replication and 2 for merge replications. In both types, I'm replicating from A to B and then from B to C. In the failing job, I'm merge replicating from B to C. In this failing snapshot job, the error messages are: 2006-03-01 18:42:17.22 [58%] Bulk copying snapshot data for article 'MyName1' 2006-03-01 18:42:17.34 [58%] Bulk copied snapshot data for articl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Datagrid Paging

  Hi. Can we achieve Datagrid Paging in a smart device application To be used in scenarios where the Data to be displayed in the datagrid is too large. Sample code or informative links would be of great help. ThanX. Yes, you can. Fetch portion of data, put it into temporary in memory storage and bind it to the grid. As paging buttons are hit, fetch other portions and rebind. I can only give you generic (and obvious) answer as particular implementation depends on your data storage and you did not mention what it is. ...Show All

• Visual C# Creating DOS-like Windows

  How do I convert this third-party Java sample to a C# console It used Win32 in its source code so Java can have console color, dos windows, shadows, etc. Is this something C# is capable of, or is C++/CLI a better idea This is for a MUD game that I'm planning. Yes, it's still sometimes good to have this functionality available :)  Thanks in advanced. // Sample of what I'm looking for using JCurses. import jcurses.system.CharColor; import jcurses.widgets.*; public class Main {     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception     {       & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sort of False warning from CA1801 : Review Unused Parameters

  Rule CA1801:ReviewUnusedParameters fires on methods marked with the ComRegisterFunction and ComUnregisterFunction attributes. If a method is marked with these attributes they must have a single parameter of the type "Type". I chose not to use this parameter in my implementation so now the rule CA1801 complaint, incorrectly i would say (because i cant remove it.). Greetings. I think I'd say that we would still want to flag this unused parameter, as in most cases, it should be used. As the rule name 'review unused parameters' suggests, there are certainly cases in which an unused parameter is ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D Direct3D Sprite Rotation (such a basic problem :( )

  Sup,   ( sorry in advance for the poor written quality and the dumb n00bish question, I'm at work and not supposed to be onthe internet. There's a lot of quick alt-tabbing going down when the boss is about!! Gotta be quick) Right, I'm getting well annoyed with this; I have found various sites on the internet that describe how to succesfully use sprites in Managed D3D (and c#) and perform transforms on them... I just can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone know of a simple bit of code (not pseudo) that creates a sprite class, rotates it and then places it at coords x,y on the screen I keep getting wierd results and would be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Serial port control

  I want to be able to send and recieve data from a microcontroller to VB 2005 express. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to setup a comm port and link code from say a button Thanks I use an 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontroller to run a data acquisition system and the following code works for me. In my case, I only need to send a single byte to the microcontroller to get it to perform all the functions and I receive 512 bytes of data in return but sending a string shouldn't be much different. I use a timer to trigger the communications and I receive the return data with the DataReceivedHandler Sub tri ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there any way to change the coordinate origin of a form away from the top left?

  I am tinkering with designer hosting, and would like to change the coordinate origin of the form to the lower left, so that controls dropped onto the surface of the designer will reflect the changes in their coordinates. Is it possible to set the origin via code for my instance of the root designer I was attempting to subvert the designer into a cartesian coordinate system, where if the origin of the root designer was changed to the lower left, then all child controls would take their origin from that point, effectively giving me an el-cheapo imitation of a standard package like Photoshop or Corel Draw, ...Show All

• SQL Server Kirk: Importing/Exporting with column ErrorCode, ErrorColumns

  I am currently redirecting lookup failures into error tables with ErrorCode and ErrorColumn. It works fine until I want to transfer data into the archived database. The SSIS pacakage generate by SQL Exporting tool is throwing an "duplicate name of 'output column ErrorCode and ErrorColumn" error. This is caused by oledb source error output. The error output automatically add ErrorCode and ErrorColumn to the error output selection and not happy with it. I think the question is down to "How to importing/exporting data when table contains ErrorCode or ErrorColumn column " Can you not ...Show All

• .NET Development Why do I get a SecurityException when running from the network?

  Hi,   I 'm writing an EXE file using C#.  In my EXE, I'm trying to get access to Environment variables.  Everything is working fine locally.  I have the statement "Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP")" which works on my local machine.   As soon as I transfer the program to a networked drive, everytime I run the application it spits out the following error message: --- BEGIN SNIP --- Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for "XVPinpal.validator" threw an exception. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type System.Security.Permission s.En ...Show All

• Visual C# C# and Lotus Notes

  Does anyone have any suggestions for using C# to do a lookup in Lotus Notes address book Any Help would be apppreciated Thank You It's actually very simple. Create a new project in VS.Net 2003/2005. Add a reference to to Domino to it (right click on the References in the Solution Explorer, switch to the 'COM' tab, locate "Lotus Domino Object" and click OK). Now in your code add a 'using Domino' statement on top of your class. In your method you can now create a new NotesSession object as follows: NotesSession session = new NotesSession (); session.Initialize( "" ); NotesDatabase db = ses ...Show All

• Smart Device Development UpdateData before app starts

  Hello all, I am writing a native, dialog based, c++ app (MFC) for a Windows Mobile 2003 device (PPC) using vs2005. I have the following things: - a variable - that variable DDX'd to an edit control - the variable set to some initial value - an "OnEnChange" handler for my edit control that calls UpdateData(TRUE) - another method that changes the variable and calls UpdateData(FALSE) to update the control This seems to work fine...the user changes the edit control and the variable is updated, and vice versa. However, the problem is at application startup. I get an error "An unsupported operation was attempted". The dial ...Show All